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Benjamin Sulman

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Ecosystem scientist and computational modeler. Living in Knoxville, TN, formerly of Madison, WI

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Corpus Christi may run out of water next year, and they are praying for a hurricane to hit and dump 20-30” of rain. The water loss “impacts are going to be felt tremendously through the state, if not internationally.”

Drought is climate change’s biggest threat.

09.03.2026 00:00 👍 61 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0
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INVITED MINI REVIEW
Knowledge‐Guided Machine Learning for Global Change Ecology Research

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06.03.2026 17:59 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Some exciting news to share: very soon, NOAA Research will be hiring new federal employees into science positions across the agency! A couple of notes:

1) They will only be open on USAJobs for seven days.
2) Multiple positions at different sites may be in one posting.

(1/2)

04.03.2026 23:55 👍 68 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 1

I'd love to talk to prospective postdocs who are thinking about the role of land in the climate system about applying! If that's you please reach out!

04.03.2026 06:33 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 5

we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.”

Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.

02.03.2026 14:47 👍 387 🔁 82 💬 11 📌 11
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When and why microbial-explicit soil organic carbon models can be unstable Abstract. Microbial-explicit soil organic carbon (SOC) cycling models are increasingly being recognized for their advantages over linear models in describing SOC dynamics. These models are known to ex...

While applying eco-evolutionary optimization, Erik also found that positive feedbacks in microbial models can cause microbial extinction. You can check if your model fulfills mathematical criteria for stable behavior here: doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

02.03.2026 10:56 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

28.02.2026 15:54 👍 10385 🔁 2850 💬 92 📌 138
paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980

paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980

paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980

27.02.2026 23:36 👍 268 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 8
A threatening and creepy tree I don't like at all, which speaks out of its bellybutton and is advancing towards me in tiny tree steps which it thinks I haven't noticed, and repeatedly asking me why I will not "Come inside where it is warm, for a nice treat."

A threatening and creepy tree I don't like at all, which speaks out of its bellybutton and is advancing towards me in tiny tree steps which it thinks I haven't noticed, and repeatedly asking me why I will not "Come inside where it is warm, for a nice treat."

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.

22.02.2026 16:02 👍 749 🔁 183 💬 34 📌 57
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It's time for March Mammal Madness! I hope you're all ready to play!
libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
#2026MMM

20.02.2026 01:14 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Leading US Research Lab Appears to Be Squeezing Out Foreign Scientists House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.

House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission. www.wired.com/story/leadin...

20.02.2026 10:04 👍 124 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 5
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20.02.2026 00:53 👍 311 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 3

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

17.02.2026 20:37 👍 1853 🔁 429 💬 23 📌 63
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It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

14.02.2026 23:42 👍 1125 🔁 295 💬 25 📌 39
Postdoctoral Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...

13.02.2026 19:38 👍 17 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 1

MEDALHA DE OURO BRASIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLL

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen becomes the first South American ever to win a medal in any Winter Olympic event!!!!!

14.02.2026 13:31 👍 1004 🔁 169 💬 8 📌 35
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What can toughen Louisiana coast against worsening storms? 4 years and 30,000 trees In the wetlands of coastal southeast Louisiana, conservation groups are wrapping up a four-year project to plant 30,000 trees.

“We’re one part of a larger movement to resist this sort of ‘doomerism’ mindset, and to show that recovery is possible .... we know that likely we’ll never return to that pristine image of the past. But we can gain something back.” 🌎🧪🌿

apnews.com/article/loui...

13.02.2026 20:29 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Hey folks, if you like stories about your heroes turning out to be bad people, and uh, like wizards and shit, I have a book out now.

06.02.2026 13:57 👍 137 🔁 71 💬 0 📌 4
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Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

i wrote about the reuben sandwich (an all time classic), the food feud behind it, and the totally washed and failson life of its namesake, the biblical patriarch reuben: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

13.02.2026 18:03 👍 228 🔁 46 💬 12 📌 11

Outlook's "react to this email with an emoji" feature would be outlawed in any reasonable society.

10.02.2026 21:59 👍 45 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

This is very sweet

09.02.2026 21:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey Knoxville, let's help our neighbors today!

08.02.2026 16:25 👍 52 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 0
Fig. 2 Individual and interactive impacts of soil physicochemistry, microbes, fauna, and plants on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics.

Fig. 2 Individual and interactive impacts of soil physicochemistry, microbes, fauna, and plants on soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics.

#TansleyReview: #Soil organic matter dynamics under changing #precipitation regimes

@aaberhe.com et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue @teamrat.bsky.social

07.02.2026 15:30 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Microbial growth rate is a stronger predictor of soil organic carbon than carbon use efficiency - Nature Ecology & Evolution Microbial carbon use efficiency is a strong predictor of soil organic carbon stocks. Here the authors reveal that the microbial growth rate is a more reliable and informative predictor, and that model...

Soil microbes grow, respire, die. Because their biomass eventually becomes necromass, and necromass can be stabilized in soil, growth rate emerges as a powerful predictor of soil carbon: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

06.02.2026 15:09 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

06.02.2026 05:10 👍 5752 🔁 1653 💬 135 📌 164
Research Technician III, Tree Ring Laboratory Duties and Responsibilities:Assisting with the meticulous preparation of samples for radiocarbon analysis following established protocols. This includ...

We're hiring a full-time technician to support radiocarbon analyses. If you have some experience with analytical instruments and background in chemistry, earth sciences, archaeology, and/or ecology, this could be the job for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

05.02.2026 14:40 👍 23 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1
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When will Amtrak passenger trains come to Madison? A new push to bring an Amtrak station to Madison has returned despite passenger rail’s fraught history in the state.

The Star newspaper in Sun Prairie ran one of our recent stories.

04.02.2026 18:46 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Nationwide Soil Microbiome Mapping Project Connects Students and Scientists - Eos Researchers and students are building a comprehensive picture of the microbial life beneath our feet.

“Soil is one of the last frontiers on Earth,” says @avahoffman.com. A new project aims to map it.

04.02.2026 16:56 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Research Assistant I Full-time Research Assistant for the Tumber-Dávila lab. The RA’s duties (outlined in detail in the Key accountabilities) include: 1) lab management, 2) field work and research travel, 3) lab work and ...

The Tumber-Dávila Lab, Dartmouth College Dept. of Environmental Science, is seeking a full-time lab manager/research assistant to contribute to research on belowground ecosystems response to global change.

COME JOIN US! 🧪🌳🌲🌎

searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/84449

04.02.2026 16:43 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

Mood on the third cancelled school day following a 2 inch snowfall over the weekend

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